The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [170] Cotton MS. Vespasian, B. xii.

[ [171] MS. Harl. This book is entitled "The Maister of the Game."

[ [172] The Book of St. Albans, I fancy, by mistake, places the wild roe for the wild boar.

[ [173] The Book of St. Albans adds, that all other kinds of beasts subject to hunting are to be called "Raskall," derived, I suppose, from the Saxon word papcal, which signifies a lean beast, or one of no worth.

[ [174] The word in the original MS. is written fute and fuite, which I conceive to be French, and then the interpretation I have given of flight will be proper. The meaning is, that the latter leave a scent behind them when they are chased.

[ [175] Hist. Reg. Angl. lib. ii. cap.8.

[ [176] Testa Nevelli.

[ [177] Memb. 13.

[ [178] Ibid. See more in Blount's Ancient Tenures.

[ [179] "Booke of hauking and hunting," without date, reprinted with the title of "A Jewell for Gentrie." Lond. 1614.